Explore and understand the Different Contemporary Art technique and Performance Practices in CPAR (Contemporary Philippine Arts form the Region)Lesson 1 in Quarter 2

1. DIFFERENT CONTEMPORARY ART
TECHNIQUES AND PERFORMANCE
PRACTICES
Contemporary Philippine Arts form the Region
Quarter 2

2. What is Medium?
Medium is defined as the material, or the
substance out of which a work is made.
Through these materials, the artists express
and communicate feelings ideas.

3. The medium also defines the nature of the art form
as follows:
•The sculptor uses metal, wood, stone, clay, and glass.
•The architect uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete
and various building materials.
•The painter uses pigments (e.g, watercolor, oil, tempera,
textile paint, acrylic ink, etc.) on a usually flat ground (wood,
canvas, paper, stone wall such as in cave paintings).

4. •The printmaker uses ink printed or transferred on a surface
(wood, metal plates, or silk screen) that is in keeping with a
duplicating or reproducing process.
•The musician uses sound and instruments (including the
human voice), while the dancer uses the body.
•The dancer uses the body and its movements. Dance is
often accompanied by music, but there are dances that do
not rely on musical accompaniment to be realized.

5. •The theater artist integrates all the arts and uses the stage,
production design, performance elements, and script to
enable the visual, musical, dance and other aspects to come
together as a whole work.
•The photographer and filmmaker use the camera to record
the outside world
•The writer of a novel, poetry, nonfiction and fiction uses
words.

6. What is Technique?
Technique is the manner in which artists use and
manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal effect,
and communicate the desired concept, or meaning,
according to his or her personal style. The distinctive
character or nature of the medium determines the
technique. For example, stone is chiseled, wood is
carved, clay is modeled and shaped, metal is cast, and
thread is woven.

9. Puni or Palm Leaf Folding
• Bulacan, Philippines
• Fashioned by folding, plaiting, braiding and simple
weaving
• Design- fish, bird, grasshopper etc.
• Food containers for suman, rice and various kakanin
• Palm Sunday – “Palaspas”
• Decorative pieces used as decors, accessories and
accents for various arrangement or crafts.

12. Singkaban or Bamboo Art
• Bulacan, Philippines
• Local term for bamboo arches elaborately designed with
kayas
• Decoration during town fiestas in Bulacan.
• Hagonoy and Malolos
• Singkaban Festival – week long celebration
• “Bayanihan” inspired

14. Saniculas Cookie Mold Carvings
• Pampanga, Philippines
• Arrowroot cookies that have the image of St. Nicholas
molded on it ergo the name Saniculas.
• St. Nicholas is also known as "the healer"

16. Pabalat or Pastillas Wrapper Cutting
Art
• Bulacan, Philippines
• Sining bayan
• Flowy, paper-tin tails end
• The word pabalat has two levels of meaning. On a
literal note, it pertains to the pabalat as a product
(paper cut-outs). On a metaphorical level, it connotes
the state-of-the-art practice.

18. Pagbuburda
• Laguna, Philippines
• The art of embroidery is happily
alive and flourishing in these towns
• Mostly done by women who are
wives of the farmers and fishermen

20. Taka-
making
• Laguna, Philippines
• Taka- carved wooden sculpture
• Brown craft paper
• paper mache
• Maria Bague (1920’s)- first recorded or mention of a
created taka
• Subject- manok, kabayo, kalabaw ,dalaga
• American colonization period
• Paeteños believe that the idea originated in Mexico

22. •Lucban, Quezon
•San Isidro Labrador
•May 15
•Pahiyas means “décor”
•Originally a pagan festival
Pahiyas